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The bindings of the Melbourne Public Library have 

 cost in all 112,000. The number of books in the 

 Melbourne Library is about 50,000. If to these we 

 add pamphlets and other periodicals we have 174,380. 

 It is open to the public, without payment, from ten 



LIBRARY OF MELBOURNE. 



a.m. to ten p.m., and is visited by over 325,000 persons 

 per year. 



Throughout the colony of Victoria, over which we 

 travelled so largely, there are 280 of these useful 

 institutions, the number of ^volumes in them all 

 amounting to 353,000, while the number of visits paid 

 them during the year was over three millions. 



